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Building the Future with Data: Homes England’s Data Platform

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Building the Future with Data: Homes England’s Data Platform

Explore how Homes England built a secure data platform to improve data quality and empower better, faster decision making across the organisation.

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Another performance dashboard for local government

Posted by: Matt Harrington, Posted on: 8 September 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

...phone line. Assessing whether this communication channel is effective could be a point of further investigation for the council. Solihull Council chief information officer, Steve Halliday, has blogged about further...

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A refreshing change: helping the Performance Platform deliver

Posted by: Jen Oliver, Posted on: 1 September 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

The Performance Platform team is growing. We've recently hired a new service manager, programme delivery manager, and a couple of new delivery managers. As one of those newbies, I thought I'd share my first impressions of the platform with you. …

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What does it all mean?

Posted by: David Wilks, Posted on: 28 August 2014 - Categories: Data science

The UK runs lots of public consultations – over 500 since January!

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Sprint notes, 8 August to 21 August

Posted by: Rosalie Marshall, Posted on: 22 August 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

We’ve been hard at work this sprint. We’ve added new features to dashboards, while gearing up for our Service Standard Public Beta Assessment on the 27 August. Passing this assessment will give us permission from the Government Digital Service to …

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Anomaly detection: a machine learning approach

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 15 August 2014 - Categories: Data science, Performance Platform

Despite the current overhyped status of the internet of things, real-time and near real-time data is an important topic in both the private and public sectors. Whether the data is...

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Ambassador Twitter Networks

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 15 August 2014 - Categories: Data science, Performance Platform

...Node size reflects account importance: typically weighted by either incoming connections/followers or eigenvalue centrality which reflects how well connected an individual is to parts of the network with greatest connectivity....

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Exploring fire brigade performance data

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 14 August 2014 - Categories: Data science

...the live version can be found on the prototypes page. A dashboard of sorts The underlying hosting and back-end infrastructure of this prototype is similar to that of the river...

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Performance Prototypes: testing approaches to visualisation

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 12 August 2014 - Categories: Data science, Performance Platform

...technical details behind their creation. In the meantime, feel free to explore the page, and be aware that you'll get the best experience using Chrome, Safari or Firefox browsers. Visualising...

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Sprint notes 25 July – 7 August 2014

Posted by: Henry Hadlow, Posted on: 11 August 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

We're a bit light this sprint since a few people are taking their summer hols. But we've still got a few things to share: This sprint What browsers people use to access a service We've made a prototype module to …

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Service managers design their dream dashboards

Posted by: Will Roissetter, Posted on: 8 August 2014 - Categories: Performance Platform

At the Performance Platform we regularly run workshops with service managers to get more understanding of their needs. This time we asked them to design their own dream analytics dashboards. While the dashboards sketched by service managers aren’t likely to …

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